The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide To Culinary Creativity, Based On The Wisdom Of America's Most…

Hardcover | September 16, 2008

Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and Scholarship

Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present the definitive guide to creating "deliciousness" in any dish. Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced, provide a treasure trove of spectacular flavor combinations. Readers will learn to work more intuitively and effectively with ingredients; experiment with temperature and texture; excite the nose and palate with herbs, spices, and other seasonings; and balance the sensual, emotional, and spiritual elements of an extraordinary meal.Seasoned with tips, anecdotes, and signature dishes from America's most imaginative chefs, THE FLAVOR BIBLE is an essential reference for every kitchen.

Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and ScholarshipGreat cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dorne...

Recently cited as two of a dozen "international culinary luminaries" along with Patrick O'Connell, Alice Waters, and Tim and Nina Zagat (in Relais & Chateaux'sL'Ame et L'Espritmagazine), the award-winning authors Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg have written several groundbreaking books chronicling and celebrating America's culinary re...

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Mary from
finallyi bought this for my son in law, been looking for something like this for ages, thank you

Date published: 2016-12-06

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Gary from
The Flavor BibleAnyone who enjoys cooking needs this book. Give you the best matches for pretty much any food you can think of. No kitchen should be without one.

Date published: 2013-04-22

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commiskaze from
Must Have!This is book is a culinary must have for anyone creative in the kitchen. If I had to chose one book to have in my kitchen this one would be it (I have hundreds so this is just hypothetical). What this book is a Thesaurus for flavour combinations, some familiar, many are not. It contains 1000's of ingredients, and other ingredients that pair well with them making is a necessity for any chef, or culinary student. It also contains popular chefs favourite dishes and combinations in conjunction with the listings. Cant stress how useful this book has been!

Date published: 2011-07-28

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Resembles none of the foodie culture's memoirs or cultural histories or cookbooks...It's more like the I Ching. Open it randomly, and it will open you up to an array of possibilities in your culinary future.-Emily Nunn in The Chicago Tribune